discovery

Perhaps the most famous data visualisation in history concerns water. In 1854, before the germ theory even existed, Dr John Snow created a dot map of cholera deaths in order to discover, visually, the source of the infection – a water pump – and to debunk the miasma theory of bad air. Discovering [...]

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